From: Mark Hahn <mchahn@...>
Date: 2001-12-30T10:06:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29678] http timeout?


If I try to connect to an http server with Net::HTTP.new().get and the
server doesn't respond, the get call never returns (I've waited 3 minutes).
Shouldn't there be a timeout?

I can use a seperate timeout thread to do this, but I thought the tcpip
stack should do the timeout for me.  Also, if I kill a thread sleeping on a
get call, will that leave a socket tied up forever?